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COMMUNITY BREAKFAST AT FAIRMOUNT A SUCCESS: The community breakfast in the school hall on Saturday 7 March, organised by former learners from Fairmount Secondary School in Grassy Park, was a huge success. Approximately 150 seniors from Grassy Park and surrounding areas attended the breakfast, and the money raised is in aid of school fees and other projects. Terence Klassen, the school’s principal, was extremely grateful to the former learners and hopes other alumni would also give back and make a difference in the lives of the next generation. Here, the seniors are seen being served by former learners.

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School shoes come first AVRIL FILLIES AVRIL.FILLIES@MEDIA24.COM

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earners from Zeekoevlei Primary in Lotus River and Thomas Wildschutt Junior Primary in Retreat have been kitted out with school shoes thanks to the organisation Earth Angel.

“We are five women from Pelican Park, Retreat and Steenberg who are trying to help the learners in our communities by covering their feet.

“We make mats, photo frames and toilet sets, sell it and use that money to buy the school shoes,” says Felicity Mopp from Retreat, who leads the group.

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from Retreat, Rebecca Solomons from Steenberg, Amanda Mopp from Pelican Park and Samantha Hendricks from Retreat.

They call themselves Earth Angels because they want to do good without expecting anything in return.

Before she partnered with the other four women, Mopp donated groceries to single parents in Retreat.

“When I realised that the kids in my community don’t have school shoes I decided to involve the senior citizens in the community and we started making mats. I used the money raised to buy shoes.

“We would stand on corners or entrances to schools and watch who had shoes and who did not. When we visited Zeekoevlei Primary, we discovered that the learners are still wearing waterboots in the heat of the sum-

mer. I immediately went out and bought the school shoes and handed it to the principal to distribute among the learners,” she says.

Mopp is still giving groceries to single moms but her main focus is now on school shoes.

“The school shoes are now our first priority and we would like to expand our project to other schools in the surrounding areas.

Principals at these schools can call me with the sizes that they need and we’ll try to accommodate them.

“Everything we buy, we do so out of our own pockets,” Mopp says.

Earth Angel also handed out 1 000 pads at Zeekoevlei Primary and, due to the recent killings and rape of children, the organisation is now contemplating buying whistles to hand out to the boys and girls.

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“Whenever they are in trouble they can just blow the whistle to let people know they are in distress,” Mopp says.

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PEOPLE'S POST | GRASSY PARK Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Flagship beach project rolls out the mat for differently abled People in wheelchairs and those using walking aids will soon be able to get up close to the Atlantic ocean at Muizenberg beach, thanks to a new runway completed earlier this month.

The City of Cape Town’s recreation and parks department, in partnership with the provincial health department, launched its first Mobi-Mat at Muizenberg beach on Monday 2 March. Once the paperwork has been finalised – which should be by the end of March – the mat will be available for public use.

The environmentally friendly, lightweight mobile mat creates easy access for people in wheelchairs and those using walking aids.

The mat was rolled out in support of International Wheelchair Day on Sunday 1 March.

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ter, the mat’s non-slip surface provides an easy transition from the pathway over the sand to the ocean.

The mat, which costs R390 000, is approximately 50m long.

“We recognised the need to give dignity and equal access to all members of society to our coastline.

“Not only will it make the beach more enjoyable for those with a disability/differently-abled, but it will also add value to mothers with baby strollers and the elderly,” said Mayco member for community services and health, Zahid Badroodien.

This project is being piloted at Muizenberg beach – the City’s flagship differentlyabled-friendly beach.

In addition to facility improvements, an important priority for the universal access project is to provide environmental education and awareness programmes for the differently-abled.

Two programmes have already been developed: a rocky shore biodiversity programme for those with a visual and physical disability, and a waste programme adapted for the visually impaired.

“Developments and improvements in universal access to the City’s recreational

nodes such as beaches and parks is a longstanding priority for the recreation and parks department. Ultimately, the goal is to have

these mats on every beach, although that will take some time to fund and implement,” said Badroodien.

The Mobi-Mat was launched at Muizenberg beach as part of a pilot project.

Take care of your reproductive health Reproductive health month may have passed, but being aware of your reproductive health should always be a priority.

“It is an opportunity to reflect on gains made in terms of the sexual and reproductive health of our city, but also the challenges that remain, and to reinforce messaging that promotes healthy lifestyles,” says Mayco member for health and community services, Zahid Badroodien.

In the last financial year (July 2018 to June 2019), City health distributed just over 46 million condoms for men and women.

“We provided family planning services to nearly half a million clients, and nearly 60% of them opted for the three-month injection which ensures fewer visits to the clinic,” says Badroodien.

“City health also enrolled nearly 55 000 expectant women in our basic antenatal care programme. The programme supports the health of the mom-to-be, but also her unborn child. Currently, 68.7% of expectant women register before 20 weeks of gestation,” he says, noting that this should ideally be done before 14 weeks.

However, despite the statistics and the gains made in advancing sexual and reproductive health, society continues to be dogged by stigma around sex and the reticence still to speak openly about these issues.

Young women 19 and under made up just 16% of all family planning clients in 2018/19 – no change from the year before.

City clinics provide services and medication free of charge, and more facilities are starting to have dedicated time slots for youth-related health services.

Badroodien urges anyone who is sexually active or considering it, anyone planning a pregnancy or who is already pregnant to visit their nearest clinic for the appropriate healthcare guidance and advice.

“Regular health tests are also encouraged for those who are sexually active, or before you have sex. Much of the focus is on HIV/ Aids, but there are a number of sexuallytransmitted infections (STIs) like chlamydia, gonorrhoea and herpes, to mention a few, that can cause health complications,” Badroodien says. City health would like to promote 10 steps to ‘self-care’ for sexual and

reproductive health: . Knowledge is power. Visit your nearest clinic for advice and information. Visit the City’s website for help finding a clinic. . Do not engage in sexual activity or succumb to peer pressure if you are not ready. . Never have unprotected sex. . Do not rely on your partner to provide protection – protect yourself. . Birth control does not prevent STIs – always use a condom. . Get tested for STIs, including HIV, and insist your partner or potential partner does the same. . Consider using PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a tablet to prevent getting HIV, which is available from some NGOs and at some clinics. . If you test positive, start treatment at your local clinic immediately and complete the course (treatment for HIV is lifelong). . Be honest and inform your sexual partner/s of existing conditions. . If you are pregnant, enrol for basic antenatal care (Banc) at your local clinic as soon as possible.

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#CoronaVirusFacts or fiction?

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ith the first case of COVID-19 (more commonly known as coronavirus) confirmed in South Africa last week, certain realisations have set in for many South Africans, with the heightened sense of panic the overriding phenomenon which seems to have set in.

While this natural inclination is nothing new, it begged the question – when stimulated with the unknown which then becomes reality, why do we repeatedly resort to feeding our fears rather than embracing said reality by quantifying and processing all tangible proof laid bare, and then forming a rational understanding of that data before reacting on one’s realisation. For many, the actual reality, not the one we choose to construct for ourselves, is too easily cast to one side in exchange for feeding into the fear frenzy being dished out so recklessly by fear-mongers.

While I am in no way trying to downplay the threat and potential impact this outbreak poses, I am questioning the method in which some of us are choosing to use in reaction to the verified information provided and readily available to us.

While the increasingly waning distrust in the mainstream media is evident, everything being publicised does not necessarily equate into misinformation.

The irony of it all is, that in mistrust we are more susceptible to being misin-

formed and misled and thus, nowhere closer to easing our worst fears. At the same time, the exercise of trawling through information to establish facts to properly inform the masses is an exhausting process that eats up valuable time and resources which could have been put to better use elsewhere.

Therefore it is no surprise that when searching #CoronaVirusFacts, you will be confronted with increasingly outlandish hoaxes, or scenarios which exaggerate certain facts – I’m looking at you hazmat suits and surgical masks, with many of these myths being debunked in the process. While the threat is very evident and the awareness created around the outbreak has thankfully been high (better to be safe than sorry), the less popular reality is that more people have been recorded to have recovered from being infected with COVID-19 than have died. At the time of writing, just under 100 000 people worldwide were recorded as being infected with COVID-19 (the population of Earth currently sits at over 7.5 billion), with 3 383 recorded deaths, mainly in China, where the outbreak originated.

This means that little over 3% of those infected were in mortal danger, a percentage now in decline as more recoveries are being recorded and the frequency of infections start to decrease. To put this into perspective – the 2014 Ebola outbreak in

West Africa had a confirmed fatality rate of 39% (11 319 deaths of 28 642 recorded cases – source: https://data.humdata.org/ ebolacurrent), with the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo having an even higher fatality rate of 64% (2 130 deaths from 3 310 confirmed cases (source: World Health Organisation). Scary. I am no doctor or medical expert; the numbers tell their own story, and while conditions for infection of either pathogen mentioned vastly differ, the threat levels for each can be tempered.

In South Africa, there is too little data to formulate an accurate representation of the impact the arrival of the virus will have here, but according to American Dr Todd Ellerin, a technical specialist for SARS, H1NI, Ebola, and now 2019-coronavirus, on Harvard Health Publishing’s website: “Even though there are confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US, most people are more likely to catch and spread influenza (the flu). (So far this season), there have been nearly 30 million cases of flu and 17 000 deaths.”

There will be other outbreaks and new fears realised and preyed upon, but while we are caught up in this frenzy, let us not lose perspective of that which is known, checked, verified and which can be used to help better understand the unknown, rather than let the fear of it consume us.

- Earl Haupt

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GRASSY PARK

Workshops to showcase crafts AVRIL FILLIES

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rassy Park residents are invited to attend the workshops of the local tourism initiative, The Craft Route, part of the Community ThinkTank SA. The workshops encourage local crafters to adapt some of their crafts to reflect the rich heritage of the locals in Grassy Park. The workshops are held in areas surrounding Grassy Park with their own facilitators. “We have different craft workshops or projects and area facilitators and members of The Craft Route pool of crafters offer these workshops to locals. The beading project is an excellent entry into the world of home crafting. We are currently teaching a group of local elders in Pelican Park this skill,” says Robin Oakes, founder of the organisation. The leatherworks workshop is an introduction to leatherworks. “Everyone that

is attending this workshop is introduced to how to make your own jewellery and other small leather items. At the jewellery workshop you will learn how to make your own neck chains, earrings, anklets, bracelets, toerings and rings,” Oakes says.

At the waxwork and candlemaking workshop participants are taught how to make the large “altar” candles, table candles, floating candles and others in a variety of colours, patterns and shapes. “When we host the workshop about soap-making we show how to make organic soaps utilising herbs, aroma therapy and even cow dung.

There is also a workshop for designing and making your own clothes. A small donation is appreciated to cover the costs of materials and the facilitator costs,” he says.

The offices are in 19 Brookford Road in Grassy Park.

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Members of The Craft Route planning a mini-market.

Newman to show cricket skills AVRIL FILLIES The Over 50’s Cricket World Cup starts today (10 March) and the South African team wants to show they have what it takes to lift the trophy.

The SA team will be in action against Wales at the Cape Town Cricket Club in Victoria Road in Plumstead at 10:15.

PeoplesPost spoke to one of the South African cricketers, Anwell Newman, from Stellenbosch.

Newman, a civil technolo- Anwell Newman gy teacher at Weston High High School in Vredenburg and also the head of the department of civil technology, will show his abilities with the willow and the ball during the World Cup. “I am over the moon being selected for SA. This is a long awaited opportunity as I’ve never played for SA before. I never stopped playing cricket after my playing days for Boland between 1993 and 1995 and am still playing for Vredenburg Saldanha Cricket Club,” Newman says.

He is a right-arm fast bowler and righthanded batsman who played eight first-class matches for Boland.

“Although I am from Stellenbosch I went to school in Vredenburg. There are so many highlights in my cricket career playing for different clubs. The one that stands out was when I played for Paarl Cricket Club and we were crowned the league champions of Boland. This enabled us to represent the Western Cape at the Club Champs in Pretoria.

Newman says his other highlight was playing for United Cricket Club in the Western Province League where his team won the Premier B League competition and progressed to play in the 1 A League. “At both clubs I was the player/coach,” he says.

Newman played with former Protea players like Dave Callaghan, Roger Telemachus, Henry Williams, Louis Koen, Adrian Kuiper and many provincial cricketers.

“I was an all-rounder but was never recognised as one. I admired Hansie Cronje because he was a great leader and a brilliant cricketer but the West Indian fast bowler Joel Garner was the inspiration for my bowling.

“My best batting partner was Hilton Solomons, also a teacher and former Paarl Cricket Club player,” he says.

Newman says what he is looking forward to the most in the World Cup is showing his abilities as an all-rounder and helping SA make the final. “If we can win the World Cup, something that was never achieved since the inception, it will be a great achievement. I believe, with this team, we can do it,” Newman says.

He played against Nazeem White in the old apartheid era and met him at school level already. Now they are both in the SA team.

“We had our first training session last week and on Sunday 8 March we played a friendly match against the Windies.”

When Newman played for Boland under the late Bob Woolmer, the then head coach, gave him some valuable advice. “He said cricket is not everything and that you must have something to fall back on and give back to your community. He also said you should employ yourself as a cricket coach and do your coaching levels in order to become the best coach in the world,” Newman says.

Teams he played against in the early 90s are Transvaal – when he made his debut as a Boland player – Northern Transvaal, Free State, Natal, Eastern Province, Namibia, Zimbabwe and overseas touring sides.

“One of my memories of Alan Donald, our head coach now, is when he came back from an injury in Bloemfontein and he almost took off my head with his bouncers. I topedged the ball for a six and scored 23 out of the 93 runs we made against the Free State,” he chuckles.

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PEOPLE'S POST | GRASSY PARK Tuesday, 10 March 2020

MUSIC

Camaraderie is the key AVRIL FILLIES

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ne of the reasons for the success and longevity of the Malay Choir Young Men Sporting Club is the camaraderie of the members, who over four generations have kept the club alive and competitive in the Cape Malay Choir Board, it’s mother body.

“The club was established in 1938 in District Six in the area known as the ‘Dry Docks’ in Cape Town, At the age of 82 years we are the oldest Malay Choir of it’s kind in South Africa, if not the world,” says Abduraghmaan Morris, president of the club, fondly referred to as Boeta Maan, from Mitchell’s Plain. The choir was formed by the members of the January, Abrahams and Diedericks families.

“The first name of the club was Die Jonge Mens Kultuurklub, but through the modernisation of the times, it became know as the Young Men Sporting Club. Our membership now stands at about seventy members, whose ages range from our youngest member, Muammer Antulay at merely 13 years, to our oldest member, Sadakah Mosaval at 82 years of age. So you see, we have a very good blend of generations in our club,” Morris says. Together with his position as president, he is also the musical director.

“I have been with the club for 39 years, starting out as a lead singer of the Nederlandse Lied in 1981, following in my late father`s footsteps and have been with the club through the good and the bad times.”

He says he does all the compositions of the songs. “And I write the stories and lyrics to the music pieces. I get my inspiration from the mood of the musical pieces, and this year, for our comic song we did a story of a homeless person, named ‘Outjie, die bergie van die Kaap’. We tell the story of the plight

of the homeless people in Cape Town. The teams partake in the field events of grand song is funny, but it also hits home – the truth march pass and the exhibition march pass.” of the homeless people and the strife they go The best dressed choir will also be anthrough to survive in life,” he says. nounced, and the overall winner with the The annual choral competition is very pop- highest points will receive the coveted Silver ular with thousands of spectators flocking to Fez Trophy, the most sought after prize in the the Bellville Velodrome to listen to their fa- board, he says. In the past, the competitions vourite choirs. “The Nederlandse Lied, which were more family-orientated and the musithe choirs do, is very popular with the audi- cians and singers did it for the love of the ence and is close to people’s hearts. The lyrics sport, but nowadays everything is more proof the ‘liedere’ is often in Dutch or Nederlands fessional with professional musicians as well and it is sung in that way. It consists of a lead as singers. singer who starts off the song and he is joined “Let me say that I love this sport (choirs) by the choir in full harmonies. in which I grew up and I don’t actually have “We not only perform in the choir competi- another hobby, because as soon as one season tions but our choir has performed at many ends, I automatically start looking out for new other events. We were the first choir to par- material for the next season, so it’s a full-time take in a musical play in the Artscape Thea- hobby. My wish is to hand our beloved Young tre, in a play called Trammakassie, which Men Sporting Club over to my two sons to lead tells the story of the life of belonging to a Ma- and to carry on with my legacy,” Morris says. lay choir. We also partook in another play, alThe choirs that will compete for the top spot so in the Artscape Theatre, Die Vlammende on Saturday 14 March are: Rangers, Studente, Fez, which told the story of the life of Dr I.D. Strelitzia, Ottomans, Zinnias, Boarding Boys, du Plessis, the first life president of the Cape Parkdales and Primroses.

Malay Choir Board, and a poet of note,” Morris says.

The choir has also been invited to perform at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn and will perform again this year.

In 2018 they were the first choir to perform the Nederlandse Lied called “Rosa”, with the full Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, also in the Artscape Theatre.

“After the top 8 competition on Saturday 14 March in the Bellville Velodrome, all the choirs prepare for the grand finale of the Cape Ma- Wafiq Brink leads young men during the singing of “Rosa” in lay Choir Board, where the category Nederlandse Lied.

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Humans and their four-legged friends are invited to strut their stuff along the fifth annual Paws on the Promenade – a dog walk fundraiser by the Mdzananda Animal Clinic, Khayelitsha, in partnership with Vondi’s Holistic Pet Nutrition.

The walk will take place on Sunday 15 March at 09:00. Starting at the Mouille Point lighthouse, the 5km route will extend to the Sea Point swimming pool and back. Shorter turnaround points for old, tired and injured pets (or humans) will also be available. “Our 2019 Paws on the Promenade was a great success with an attendance of 539 people and 352 dogs. On a budget of just R3 500 we raised R48 400. We hope to raise even more funds with this year’s event,” says Marcelle du Plessis, Mdzananda’s fundraising manager.

The Mdzananda Animal Clinic is a nonprofit organisation (NPO) in Khayelitsha serving up to 700 animals per month through consultations, hospitalisation, general and orthopaedic surgeries, continuous sterilisations, mobile clinics and an animal ambulance. “With the loss of our main funder due to international budget cuts, it is essential for us to diversify our fundraising,” she says, encouraging people to take part. “People get very creative, dressing themselves and their dogs up in costumes,” says Du Plessis.

For the past five years Vondi’s Holistic Pet Nutrition has partnered with Mdzananda in making this event possible.

Paul Jacobson, owner of Vondi’s, says: “We support Mdzananda because of their excellent professionalism and the impact they make in the Khayelitsha community, educating pet owners and treating sick pets that would otherwise have little to no help.”

Du Plessis says: “Everyone is invited and humans without four legged friends are welcome too. A small number of homeless dogs for adoption will also be at the event.”

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GANG CULTURE

Breaking the cycle of gangsterism SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS SAMANTHA.LEE@PEOPLESPOST.CO.ZA @SAMANTHA_LEE121

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o become men, black men go to the bush, white men went to the army and coloured men go to prison.”

This was the concerning statement relayed to provincial minister for community safety, Albert Fritz, during a visit to local prisons.

The aim of the visit was to interact with prisoners who would be able to assist the department in formulating reformative programmes for at-risk youth to ensure they did not get caught up in a life of gangsterism and crime.

“I was very worried about this statement because something must be done to change this mindset,” says Fritz.

While gangsterism exists all over the world and throughout the broader South Africa, it has become synonymous with the Cape Flats.

Here, police say, children as young as six are recruited into gangs.

Chezron Fouten, who grew up in Tafelsig, left gangsterism behind while serving a 10year prison sentence for murder and gun possession.

Before he reached puberty, Fouten had washed the blood of countless victims from his hands, convicted of the serious crime at only 10-years-old.

“I was involved in gangsterism for 17 years.

I started when I was seven. At that time I didn’t get the love I wanted from my mother and I did not grow up with a father. It was then that I started looking for friends and the friends I became involved with were gangsters. That is how it all started,” says Fouten.

“I was a hitman for the gang and I was good.

I took out some of the top guys. The murder I was convicted of was the only one they caught me for. I was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder and gun possession and when I was inside, I became a member of the 28s gang.”

The cycle of young arrests for gang and serious crimes is also something under review, says Fritz.

“When a child gets arrested anywhere, whether it be Mitchell’s Plain, Hanover Park or wherever (something must be done). Any other child is normally at school, any other child belongs with his or her family. They belong to us,” says Fritz.

“When a child is arrested, we must stop wanting to throw them away. This is why the Western Cape Safety Plan is so important.

What that plan speaks to is when a child is arrested, that we use the principle clause of diversion. We take those children and try to save them and to get rid of the whole gangster thinking. We need to put these children in a programme and walk with them for at least a few years. We assist them with skills development and then we hand them over for a further intervention.”

The diversion clause refers to children being placed in reformative programmes rather than incarcerating them.

In a 2003 National Assembly meeting on the Child Justice Bill, members of Parliament discussed the clause of diversion in detail, acknowledging several constitutional matters.

The minutes read: “On the issue of whether diversion is constitutional from the victim’s perspective, particularly in relation to serious offences such as rape and murder, the

Once tagged, reformed gangsters say they are forever branded as gangsters.

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Community Law Centre makes reference to section 12(1)(c) of the Constitution. It provides that ‘everyone has the right to freedom and security of the person, which includes the right to be free from all forms of violence from either public or private sources’.”

The deliberations further speak to a victim’s right to life, human dignity and freedom and security of the person.

According to an article published by Unicef South Africa, around 38 000 youths are arrested in the Western Cape each year. For many of these youths this stems from the established gang culture in the province.

Reformed gangster and drug addict Ashley Hendricks says gangsters are role models in their communities. “We see them wearing nice clothes, we see them drive cars and being respected by so many. It is only when you are in the gangs that you realise it’s not all it’s cut out to be.”

Hendricks was a member of a local gang and says this was a tough time in his life.

He was 12 when he first got involved, and he says it was then that he became “a man”.

“There are things I don’t want to talk about.

Things I saw, things I had to do,” he says.

Hendricks says leaving was hard. “But I know it needed to be done. I was always told, once you’re in, you can’t get out. Not only out of the gang but also away from the boxes people put you in. They see my tattoos and still say I’m a gangster.”

In a recent study conducted by Dr Jane Kelly for her University of Cape Town (UCT) doctoral thesis, she interviewed several former gangsters in the hope of understanding the gang culture. “I was interested in not only the process of exiting a gang but how they maintained that after they had left the gang because there’s often a risk of rejoining, particularly in the context of poverty and unemployment,” said Kelly in a statement.

Many of the people she spoke to came from broken homes and families where love and a sense of belonging were absent.

This was the same for both Fouten and Hendricks who lacked father figures.

Fritz says this is a common factor that must be addressed through programmes if needed.

Kelly further found that for many the turning point is finding God. She pointed out that disillusionment with the gang and choosing to desist is not a single event: “This is a process that unfolds over time, [with them] coming to realise that, ‘No, they’re not there for me. That isn’t what I want for my life anymore’.”

Religion emerged as a key factor, giving

them a sense of meaning, belonging, absolution and a new community.

What was of interest to Kelly was that gangs respect religion and wanting to become “a man of God” as a way of exiting.

Fouten is now an evangelist who uses his experiences to discourage youngsters from joining.

“They will listen more to someone who has experienced it first hand,” he says.

For Mark Jeneker, living the high life as a drug dealer, religion was what pulled him out.

Following decades of drug abuse and dealing, he has now devoted his life to keeping children from following the same path and it was his love for the arts that ultimately saved his life.

He was always artistic but fell into drugs and gangsterism at the age of 13.

“I was a drug dealer for 20 years and because I was into gangsterism I did not care about anything,” he says. “I used everything from Mandrax to dagga, alcohol and even dealt in guns because I was a leader figure in the gangs.”

Taking up the role of a father figure to his step-grandchildren, he began to realise he was not setting the best example.

“I was raising children and I lost one in a car accident and the year after I lost the other one. They were not gangsters. I raised them in church, but I did not go,” he says. “I was a drug user and after they died I felt something was not right, because why did they die and I didn’t when I was doing all the wrong things?”

He has since started a foundation that helps children keep busy in some of the area’s gangridden communities.

What Jeneker, Hendricks and Fouten have in common is that they have all been able to escape a life of gangsterism and now use their experiences to better the lives of vulnerable children, giving them the chance to avoid following the same path.

While reformed gangsters are making strides in changing the narrative, areas such as Mitchell’s Plain, Bishop Lavis, Khayelitsha, Elsies River and Manenberg among others continue to be plagued by gang violence.

In recognising the need for intervention, safety and security fraternities attached to all three spheres of government have deployed additional resources to stem the scourge.

In noticing the negative impact gang tags has on the community and the overall moral of residents, the City of Cape Town established an illegal graffiti task force that by January last year had removed 10 million m² of

gang tags across the city.

The unit was started in 2010 with one officer and has since grown with millions of metres of gang tags removed from city walls.

JP Smith, mayco member for safety and security, says the areas were identified during operations and through notification from the community.

Graffiti tagging, especially gang tagging, is destructive to the look of a community says Smith, adding that illegal graffiti is a concern.

“It is incredibly destructive to the visual aesthetic of a city and in turn the confidence of the people when an area has all these indicators of discord and disorder. Tagging says that this is a place where lawlessness reigns.

Especially gang tagging, these indicate that it is an area where gangs are in charge and I am keen to delete their fingerprint off our communities,” says Smith.

In a statement, Smith continues: “Negative images and words not only scar the urban landscape, but also those residents who have to look at it daily. Getting rid of gangster graffiti will help restore dignity to many communities and instil a sense of pride.”

In a quest to bolster police’s crime fighting efforts the City of Cape Town, in partnership with the provincial government recently announced a multi-billion rand investment initiative. As part of the plan 3000 law enforcement officer will be trained and deployed across the province in the next five years. A total of 500 officers have already been deployed, with an additional 500 expected to be deployed before the end of the year.

During a Western Cape Safety Plan meeting in February, premier Alan Winde said safety was a big concern.

He continued that while they were in the process of calling on the national government to hand over the management of policing to the province, when their request had been continuously denied, they decided it was time to work together.

“We are happy about the police minister Bheki Cele’s decision to introduce 1 000 more police officers for the province,” said Winde.

The officers were deployed in December. “But the stats show that there are not enough police officers in the province.”

Winde says the extra visibility of law enforcement officers has already resulted in a significant decrease in the murder rate where they have been deployed.

In bid to further curb gang activities, police have deployed members of the anti-gang unit.

The unit was officially launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Cele in Hanover Park in November 2018.

Ramaphosa said at the time that the national anti-gang strategy sought to holistically address gangsterism.

“This strategy is a community-based strategy with a focus on street-level outreach, community development, conflict mediation and changing community norms in order to reduce violence and criminality,” he said.

Since then, the unit has made strides in reducing gang-related crimes such as gun possession, investigation of murders and shootings and confiscations of drugs.

Following an outcry from different communities, members of the South African National Defence Force were deployed in the province last year to assist police in clamping down on gang-related crimes. The force is expected to move out of the gang-ridden areas this month.

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s the annual Slipper Day draws near, children, especially, become more and more excited about that one day a year when they are allowed to wear fuzzy footwear to school.

But whether you’re young or old, Reach for a Dream encourages you to buy your wristband for Slipper Day to help make a child’s dream come true.

Slipper Day, held annually to raise funds for children with life-threatening illnesses, will be marked on Friday 8 May this year.

Heidi Rowley, the branch manager at Reach for a Dream in Canal Walk, explains how the initiative started about nine years ago.

“We wanted to have a fun, interactive day where the whole of South Africa could be part of making dreams come true. We wanted to do something a little different and out there; something that the dreamers could identify with.”

It was only natural that the non-profit organisation (NPO) decided to go with slippers, as many of the children it works with spend most of their days in hospital wearing their slippers and pyjamas.

Rowley says the initiative has continued to grow, year after year.

“When you mention Slipper Day, people know what it’s about – it’s one of our biggest national initiatives. And we encourage schools to take part because what’s so special about it is that it’s children helping children.”

Local celebrities Boity, DJ Fresh, Roxy Burger, Gert Johan Coetzee and Somizi have

come on board over the years.

Rowley says the NPO helps with a whole range of children’s dreams “which are as special and as individual as themselves”.

“The dreams range from tangible things like PlayStations, tablets, laptops and tech items, to having a unique experience. We had a little dreamer who just wanted to be a farmer for a day.”

uShaka Marine World in Durban, she says, is a popular destination for dreamers.

The NPO encourages all South Africans to be a hero and make a child’s dream come true by purchasing wrist bands and donating towards the cause.

Schools, businesses and individual buy-in are all appreciated and make all the difference, says Rowley.

This year, Wimpy wants to encourage the public to take part too. It has pledged that every person who presents their Slipper Day wristband can claim a free Wimpy coffee – and kids under 12 can swop the coffee for a hot chocolate.

V Support the cause by buying your wristband at Dischem, Wimpy and Pick n Pay. Schools can visit www.reachforadream.org.za/ to get involved.

Make a child’s dream come true by purchasing your Slipper Day wrist bands and donating towards the cause.

After-dark race to shine light on environmental issues Millions of people around the globe will participate in Earth Hour, one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment, on Saturday 28 March.

Capetonians will have the chance to add their voice to the global drive for positive environmental change with an outdoor adventure to be held at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens.

This year’s adventure entails an afterdark, family-friendly race across Kirstenbosch botanical gardens using torches and headlamps to navigate hidden checkpoints along a 5km course.

Justin Smith, World Wide Fund for Nature SA business development head, says there has never been a more important time to come together to shine a light on the environmental issues holding us back.

“This year’s Earth Hour Adventure takes

place against the backdrop of a deepening climate crisis. We can all make small changes in our own lives and encourage our leaders to make big decisions, like supporting renewable energy.”

The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney, Australia, in 2007 as a symbolic lights-out initiative.

Today it goes far beyond the symbolic action of “switching off” and has become a catalyst for climate awareness, education, conversation and driving positive legislative and policy changes by harnessing the power of the people and collective action.

Smith says the event is a great way for communities to come together in support of the environment.

“It’s a fun, family-friendly event in a beautiful natural setting and we invite everyone who can to join us to mark Earth Hour together.”

The 5km “dash” will be followed by a bring-your-own picnic on the lawns.

Participants need to bring a picnic basket and a blanket (no food will be on sale and there will be no water stations), headlamps and torches, reusable coffee mugs, drinking cups, mugs or bottles.

This is a strictly no-waste event and everyone is asked to avoid plastic waste.

Live entertainment will keep the good vibes going.

Good Hope FM radio presenter Dan Corder will be the MC and pop/R&B singer star Kerwin will perform for guests.

Gates will open at 18:00 and the run will start at 19:00.

Tickets, available online from the Earth Hour Adventure website, are R180 for adults and R100 for kids (under 6 enter for free).

The event is a fundraiser for Good Hope FM radio presenter Dan Corder will be the MC WWF SA. Proceeds will go toat the Earth Hour Adventure to be held at Kirstenbosch wards supporting its conservaNational Botanical Gardens. Photo: James Cordor. tion efforts.

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Never Too Naked Pieter-Dirk Uys is Bambi Kellermann.

The show is called Never Too Naked. The scene is the Fugard Theatre.

Angola may have the richest woman on the continent, but South Africa has its most famous white woman – Evita Bezuidenhout. She also has a younger sister, Bambi Kellermann, who is the first person to encourage fake news about herself, knowing that the truth would be too unbelievable.

Uys has always been careful to balance his two most famous creatures: Mrs Bezuidenhout, part of the culture of her land since 1981 and true to her Afrikaner roots and ego, has no sense of humour and regards irony as an enemy; Madame Kellermann on the other hand wears her humour as an expensive aura and blandishes her irony as a successful weapon of mass distraction.

While waiting on the stage of the Fugard for the arrival of her sister, Bambi shares the ups and downs of a life welllived and loves well-shared; a boeremeisie, who started her long walk to freedom by leaving Bethlehem in the Orange Free State for Vienna in Austria. She was dazzled by the big world, hiding her fears behind her new underworld creation called Bambi. Yes, she was an uber-stripper on the Reperbahn in Hamburg during the 1960s. In other words: naked. Yes, she was

hailed as one of the grand horizontals of the Northern Hemisphere during most of the last century – usually also naked except for her Chanel No 5 perfume. And yes, she will be at the Fugard this month and next, to share the naked truth of her story for the first time. As in most fairy tales, she marries a German aristocrat; as in most true horrors, he turns out to be a nightmare.

Evita Bezuidenhout’s lawyers have told Bambi’s lawyer that as reconciliation is the only solution for the future of South Africa, she and her sister must lead by example and publicly reconcile. They haven’t spoken to each other for over 30 years.

“What a relief,” giggles the former stripper. “The lawyers warn that the next time we will be together in the same room, one of us will be in a box. If Evita Bezuidenhout is in that box and I walk into the room, she will get up and leave!”

Don’t wait till that happens. Come and be witnesses at this impeachment of the most famous white woman in South Africa by her most infamous sister. Never too naked? Keep that in mind. You might find quite a surprise in store.

V Never Too Naked is at the Fugard Studio Theatre for a three week season from Tuesday 24 March to Saturday 11 April with tickets from R150 through www.thefugard.com or 021 461 4554.

Pieter-Dirk Uys stars as Bambi Kellermann in Never Too Naked at the Fugard Theatre from Tuesday 24 March.

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he Kingdom Connected Campers (KCC) from Richmond in the Central Karoo, who use dance to develop young talent, will perform one of South Africa’s oldest indigenous dance styles, riel, at the Cape Town Carnival taking place on Saturday 21 March, on Green Point’s Fan Walk.

An age-old dance style originally performed by Khoisan hunters, one of the first people to inhabit Southern Africa, riel is a celebratory form of dance usually performed around a campfire after hunting expeditions, or following a good harvest when farm labourers or sheep shearers come home from work.

Set to the beat of boeremusiek, riel employs fancy footwork that kicks up a lot of dust.

Thys Bouwers, founder and director of the Northern Cape non-profit youth organisation, says: “We formed KCC in 2017 to address crime among our youth in our little town. As in so many farming communities, poverty leading to crime is a major issue affecting poorer families and youth who are trying to survive.” Richmond, a farming town just off the N1 highway between Beaufort West and Colesberg, is far removed from the commercial, well-resourced cities of South Africa, and is bearing the brunt of the worst drought in more than a century.

“Dance, and in our case, riel, has given youth a reason to believe that there’s more to life than the incredible hardships they experience, and it provides a temporary reprieve from their harsh realities, giving them a sense of pride and purpose.”

Many indigenous Northern Cape tribes, such as the ancient San, Khoi and Nama, of whom many Afrikaans-speaking coloured Northern Cape people are descendants, perform riel with a sense of pride. The dance, regarded as a highly prized part of their heritage, is a true celebration of ancient traditions that finds new expression in contemporary forms. It portrays, for example, the wooing between men and women, and is illustrated through animal and bird movements, such as the butterfly, antelope, snake or horse, and can include the “bokspring”, “kapperjol”,

trotting and strutting. In recent years riel has featured prominently at the Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurverening (ATKV) festivals, and the “Nuwe Graskoue Trappers” from Wupperthal in the Cederberg won awards for it five years ago at the World Championship of Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Starting off with 25 dancers, two and a half years ago, KCC has doubled in size, with highlights being performances at Richmond’s Street Dance festival, the town’s book festival and the Karoo Eisteddfod, and now, for a second year running, at the Cape Town Carnival.

“To us, carnival means working together, respecting other people and their cultures, and accepting each other for who and what we are,” says Bouwers.

“Carnival will give us the exposure we need, and hopefully open up new opportunities for us to develop the youngsters further.”

The KCC dancers will put their best feet forward in the “Dance! Energy in Motion” performance pod, a celebration of South Africa’s dance styles which include, along with riel, gumboot dancing by Phatizwelethu, Masizakhe, Masi Creative Hub and IthembaLabantu.

Esmerelda Scheepers and Ashley Ramantshane, both from Richmond, are KCC dancers who see carnival and the crowed of 50 000+ that it attracts as an opportunity to show what they’re made of.

Scheepers describes taking part in the Carnival as “a privilege” and an opportunity to show off her talent, while Ramantshane says: “It opens my eyes to different cultures, creativity and talent, and allows me to dream and think big.”

From marimba to marabi, uhadi to riel; from the voices of our women to the footsteps of our ancestors; from the beat of the drum to the echoing calls for change: the Cape Town Carnival’s 2020 “Incredible Journey: Sounds of South Africa” theme will showcase the music, song, dance and art of our country.

V The free-to-view public event also offers catered for, pre-reserved seating and hospitality stands. Visit www.capetowncarnival.com for more information and prices.

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n the Western Province Cricket Association’s first division competition, Green Point took a step nearer to winning promotion to the premier league following a 26run win over United.

Green Point batted first and was in deep trouble at 85/8 but intelligent batting by tail ender Josh Savage (23) not out saw them recover to 130 all out in their alloted 50 overs.

At their turn to bat, United was well placed at 83/4, but Simon Morris (3/12) in 10 overs initiated a middle-order collapse and they could only muster 106.

Kraaifontein remain in the hunt for promotion with a narrow 1-run win over Ottomans, while Rylands also enhanced their chances of promotion with a bonus-point win over Gugulethu.

In the premier league, UCT scored another upset with a 1-wicket win over log leaders Cape Town Cricket Club.

The students did well to dismiss Cape Town for 120.

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Softball grande finalé awaits NOORE NACERODIEN

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estridge Yankees’ recent form in the women’s super league of the Cape Town Softball Association and the recent defeat of Lavender Hill against Glenthorn A’s, has set the scene for an exciting end to the season.

While Yankees was on a break the past weekend, Lavender Hill disposed of Kenfac Phillies with a 6-2 victory.

This brought Lavender Hill level with Yankees on 42 points.

The two teams meet in the grand finale of the league competition, set for 18:00 on Saturday 14 March at the Turfhall Softball Stadium. The winner also has an added opportunity for the coveted double when the two teams meet again on Sunday in the knockout (KO) final.

All five of Yankees’ teams will be seen in action in the KO on Sunday 15 March.

The women’s major league team can add the KO trophy to their league title when they face Table View Tornados.

In a weekend of many possible doubles, First League champions Glenthorn A’s face Khayelitsha Eagles and Silvertree Titans, the second league winners, hope to do likewise when they play Table View Tornados on Sunday.

Yankees face Khayelitsha Superstars in the third league KO after annexing the league title.

Not to be outdone by their club-mates, Yankees’ men also have a chance to clinch the potential double when they play Hamiltons in the men’s major league KO final. The double is dependent on the outcome, not known at the time of going to print, of the league game played last night between Khayelitsha Eagles and Hamiltons.

A Hammies victory will seal the league for Yankees. The Yankees’ second league men’s side face Heideveld Yankees in their final.

Fixtures:

League: Saturday 14 March: Super League: 14:00: Heideveld Yankees vs Falcons; 16:00 Kenfac Phillies vs Glenthorn A’s; 18:00 A Lavender Hill vs Westridge Yankees First League: 14:00: Panthers vs Glenthorn A’s; 14:00: Battswood vs Blackheath; 15:30: St Martins vs Lavender Hill; 17:00: Crusaders vs Khayelitsha Eagles; 17:00: Panthers vs Blackheath Second League: 14:00: Kenfac Phillies vs Silvertree Titans; 15:30: Table View Tornados vs Devonshire Rovers; 17:00: Falcons vs Tantasport Third League: 15:30: Blackheath vs St Augustines KO finals: Sunday 15 March: Women: Third League: 11:00: Westridge Yankees vs Khayelitsha Superstars Second League: 11:00: Silvertree Titans vs Table View Tornados First League: 13:00: Glenthorn A’s vs Khayelitsha Eagles Major League: 13:00: Westridge Yankees vs Table View Tornados Super League: 15:00: Lavender Hill vs Westridge Yankees Men: Second League: 11:00: Westridge Yankees vs Heideveld Yankees First League: 13:00 Blackheath vs Hamiltons Major League: 17:00 Hamiltons vs Westridge Yankees

Craig Joemath of Zizwe United (left) pulls Santos’ Vuyolomzi Mfiki in the goal area which led to a penalty during a second division game played in Lansdowne on Saturday 7 March. The goal which resulted from the penalty spot kept Santos in the game, but was not enough to stop the current log-leaders to run out 3-2 winners on the day.

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GESPREKKE, TONEEL, MUSIEK, KOMEDIE EN VELE MEER MET DAVID KRAMER, EMO ADAMS, MARC LOTTERING, JANA CILLIERS, DAWID MINNAAR, GIVEN NKOSI, ADAMU, PJ POWERS, DIE HEUWELS FANTASTIES, ARNO CARSTENS EN TUMI PHEKO AND WAY OF THE LIGHT DIE FEE

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WALKING FOOTBALL GOGOS VISIT VANGATE: Walking Football Cape Town welcomed the Gogos from Limpopo on Saturday 7 March at Vangate outdoor arena. They took part in an exhibition match to promote the sport of walking football among women, and to strengthen the bonds with their male counterparts in walking football.

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